Last month,students from one hundred three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest.

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So with the problems, that is where you really will get your hands dirty and truly immerse yourself in this world of computer science and programming.

带着这些问题，你就能深入研究,这真的可以使你沉浸到计算机科学,和编程世界中。

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Programming in this context boils down to telling the computer what to do.

在该环境下,编程是给计算机发出指令。

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So, an alternative to that that is incredibly common in just the programming world and in industry is to actually not write programs on your own personal computer but to actually write and run them on a server, someplace where the software is all standardized.

那么，在编程界和工业界普遍,使用的一个解决方案是,不在你自己的电脑上写程序,而是在服务器上编程运行，服务器上的软件都是标准化的。

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Now, unlike high school math or in algebra Z where you call things X and Y and Z, in programming, in computer science, you're actually dealing with humans where it's useful to have a variable name that's more descriptive than X and Y and Z.

不像高中数学或者代数中,称为X和Y和，在程序设计和计算机科学里，你实际上是在和人打交道,在这里有个描述性比xyz更强的,变量名称是很重要的。

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